From the moment the world first saw the 350 GT at the Geneva Auto Show in 1964 to the introduction of the all-electric Lanzador concept at this year’s Monterey Car Week, the Lamborghini brand has been defined by the vehicle experience. For eight months, Lamborghini America put its experiential marketing account up for review, looking…
For those who believe New York real estate has gone to the dogs, Uber Eats’ latest activation hit home in an adorable way. To celebrate the arrival of PetSmart as one of its newest vendor partners, the delivery platform opened “The Best Pet House Ever,” a pop-up that served as part showcase for the treats…
Leave it to Dove to turn a taboo subject into a teachable moment in its ongoing quest to redefine beauty standards. That the brand managed to do so during notoriously beauty-focused New York Fashion Week is even more apropos. This time around, the brand is bringing attention to a body part not typically the focus…
Aerie’s latest marketing play is an organized effort to draw attention to other brands. Moving beyond the typical brand collaboration driven by a core product–a Barbie Burger King meal, for example–the clothing brand created a shared experience with a host of small businesses. Aerie’s Hidden Gem Marketplace, which featured small New York City businesses as…
At the first patented drive-in theater in America, which opened in 1933 near Camden, N.J., guests paid $1 per carload for a lo-fi affair with speakers mounted to a 50-foot screen and an ad campaign that said, “The whole family is welcome, regardless of how noisy the children are.” How times have changed, with the…
Last year, cat food brand Fancy Feast hosted a restaurant pop-up called Gatto Bianco, where people could eat like their feline companions. After garnering buzz among cat lovers, the brand’s marketing team faced a daunting challenge. “How are we gonna top that for 2023,” recalled senior brand manager Amanda Zaydman. Its answer: in celebration of…
If there’s a building that only has murders in it, it makes sense to try to escape it. Top line In honor of the quickly-approaching Season 3 premiere of Only Murders in the Building, Hulu and The Escape Game have teamed up for an escape room experience that brings the series to life both in-person…
It’s Barbie’s world, and we’re just living in it. That’s how it feels ahead of the July 21 release of Greta Gerwig’s long-awaited Barbie movie. You wouldn’t be alone in noticing that social media, and life in general, has recently been tinted with a hot pink “Barbiecore” hue. That’s because Mattel’s Barbie marketing team and…
Brand experiences go through hype cycles like any other marketing strategy. There was the era of the flagship store, when the likes of Nike, Apple and Topshop blazed a trail of destinations that heightened the shopping experience. Then the pop-up merged brand and retail to provide entertaining, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it occasions to wow customers. Now, we have…
“If you build it, they will come,” is the mystical piece of advice given to Kevin Costner in arguably the greatest movie about baseball ever made, 1989’s Field of Dreams. And that is a mantra Major League Baseball (MLB) is embracing as it looks toward international expansion, with one eye on Europe. The irony of…
Now that the pandemic has ebbed and festivals are packed again, brands need to ask themselves a question: Are you hanging in the back watching the crowd and hoping they’ll buy from your tent, or are you part of the party? According to entertainment and sports analytics company SponsorUnited, LiveNation–which hosts Lollapalooza, Rolling Loud, Austin…
First came Barbie, and then came her Dreamhouse. Toy company Mattel introduced Barbie’s home, a ranch house in Malibu, in 1962, three years after launching the doll. It has since taken on various styles to reflect the times, like a bohemian townhouse in the 1970s and a bubble-gum pink mansion in the 1990s. Now, ahead…
DTC luggage brand Away has joined the growing list of companies integrating AI in their marketing, but the goal of its new campaign is to point out the limitations of the technology. Created by AI artist Ulises and experiential agency Superfly, the “Extraordinary Is Out There” campaign demonstrates that no matter how wild an AI…
A typical American mall scene–circa the 1990s–gets a trippy makeover where aliens mingle with shoppers and mannequins come to life, stores have sardonic names like “Earholes” and mall walkers form a cult-like community. This surreal take on a well-known shrine of conspicuous consumption comes courtesy of art collective and entertainment company Meow Wolf as a…
German luxury vehicle manufacturer BMW aims to emulate the Hollywood experience again through its marketing. After a seven-year absence, the brand film series, BMW Films, will be resurrected. This return is set alongside the release of a short film featuring Uma Thurman, Pom Klementieff and a BMW i7 M70. The film will be screened at…
From the spectacle of the Super Bowl and the adrenaline of the World Cup final to the in-the-moment joy of Glastonbury or the Travis Scott X Fortnite Astronomical concert breaking lockdown boundaries–experiences are impactful, inspirational and endure in the memory. For marketers and brand managers, experiences can engage customers and bring brands to life in…
In an innovative, relevant, and health-conscious move, Heinz Brazil is developing a proprietary “Heinz red” tattoo pigment using only non-harmful ingredients and making the ink available to tattoo parlors throughout Brazil. The action comes on news that color tattoo ink faces growing restrictions and outright bans in countries around the world. The European Union alone […]
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Perfection is out. We want our heroes flawed, our romantic comedies realistic and our images un-retouched. But does this mean the world’s biggest brands are ready for a traveling exhibit called the Museum of Failure that showcases their unloved products? “No,” laughed Samuel West, the project’s founder and an organizational psychologist by trade. “Nobody wanted…
Lobbying typically gets a bad rap, conjuring images of backdoor deals corrupting politicians with money. But over in Finland, a creative agency challenged these norms with an unusual lobbying campaign using experiential marketing. Unlike many lobbing efforts that happen behind closed doors, the campaign for Finnish retail giant S Group garnered national media attention and…
It’s a reasonable bet that most senior-level marketers would like–even if it’s just once–to lead the creation of a Super Bowl ad. After all, who wouldn’t want to work with a budget that lets them drop $7 million on the most prime TV time there is? What CMO doesn’t dream of having 100 million-plus consumers…
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